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New Haven Independent
Elm City Market To Leave 360 State
By Thomas Breen,
2024-08-22
(Updated) A downtown grocery store that has anchored a luxury apartment complex at Chapel and State streets for more than a decade will be closing up shop this fall — with plans to move two blocks down the road to a mixed-use development currently on the rise at the former Coliseum site.
According to the grocery store’s CEO, Kurt Luttecke, Elm City Market will be leaving its long-time home at 360 State St. “around the end of October.”
But the store won’t be leaving downtown New Haven.
Luttecke said Elm City Market’s new location with be in “retail site 2a” at the southwest corner of the Coliseum redevelopment. He said they hope to reopen “towards the end of December.”
Why leave 360 State? “Ultimately, it’s too big a space for us,” Luttecke said.
He said the market will “try to retain” as many of its current 45 employees as it can over the course of this move to the Coliseum redevelopment.
Update: Frank Caico, a vice president at Spinnaker Real Estate Partners, the Norwalk-based company that is building the“Square 10” development at the former Coliseum site, told the Independent on Thursday that Elm City Market will be moving into a commercial space that is roughly 3,000 square feet.
“We’re obviously very excited to have them,” he said.“It will be a huge amenity for the neighborhood, and obviously for the Square 10 district. We were really surprised when they reached out to us. It sounds like they’re changing their business plan.”
Caico said Spinakker would love to have the market move in towards the end of December, in the outline laid out by Luttecke. He also said the first residential tenants at Square 10 should be moving in in the next few weeks, after the Labor Day holiday.
Friedman praised 360 State and Elm City Market for being “valuable catalysts in Downtown New Haven’s revitalization for over a decade.” He said his company is “actively marketing the space to other operators and [is] confident that a new tenant will continue to provide services to downtown and neighboring residents.”
How does Luttecke feel about Elm City Market leaving a spot it’s called home for more than a decade? “I believe we’re going to be so closely located” to the market’s current site at 360 State, he said, that it won’t make too much of a difference.
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